[[!meta date="2017-12-31T15:43:42-07:00"]]
[[!meta author="Tyler Cipriani"]]
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Copyright &copy; 2017 Tyler Cipriani
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[[!meta title="2017 by the numbers"]]

These are some meaningless numbers.

* Books read: 34 (goal 50)
    1. [White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17360507W/White_trash) by Nancy Isenberg
    2. [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13716955W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix) by J.K. Rowling
    3. [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13716954W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince) by J.K. Rowling
    4. [Brave New World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL64468W/Brave_New_World) by Aldous Huxley
    5. [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82586W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows) by J.K. Rowling
    6. [The Camera](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL79132W/The_camera) by Ansel Adams
    7. [Learning to See Creatively](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8532656W/Learning_to_See_Creatively) by Bryan Peterson
    8. Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick
    9. Black Panther .1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    10. [The Handmaid's Tale](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL675783W/The_handmaid's_tale) by Margaret Atwood
    11. [The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9200964W/The_Sandman_Vol._1)  by Neil Gaiman
    12. [The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15449786W/The_Sandman_Volume_2)  by Neil Gaiman
    13. [The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14975232W/The_Sandman_Vol._3) by Neil Gaiman
    14. The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
    15. The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
    16. The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
    17. The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
    18. Continental Pilsner by David Miller
    19. [The Sandman, Vol. 8: The World's End](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679308W/The_Sandman_Vol._8) by Neil Gaiman
    20. [The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14975250W/The_Sandman_Vol._9) by Neil Gaiman
    21. The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
    22. Brewing Local: American-Grown Beer by Stan Hieronymus
    23. [The Dispossessed](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59863W/The_dispossessed) by Ursula K. Le Guin
    24. [Neptune's Brood](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17554076W/Neptunes_Brood) by Charles Stross
    25. [Misery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81634W/Misery) by Stephen King
    26. [Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5961779W/Storm_Front_[The_Dresden_Files_Book_1]_[Dresden_Files]) by Jim Butcher
    27. [Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5961788W/Fool_Moon) by Jim Butcher
    28. [The Postman](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL58717W/The_Postman) by David Brin
    29. [Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98474W/Slaughterhouse-five) by Kurt Vonnegut
    30. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
    31. [Breakfast of Champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98488W/Breakfast_of_Champions) by Kurt Vonnegut
    32. [El Deafo](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17095216W/El_Deafo) by Cece Bell
    33. [Digger](http://diggercomic.com/) by Ursula Vernon
    34. [Pride and Prejudice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15839230W/Pride_and_Prejudice) by Jane Austen
* Miles run: 124.57 (goal 100)
* Meditation sessions: 47 (goal 100)
* Commits (on github): 445
* Deployments to Wikimedia production: 377
* Trick-or-treaters on Halloween: 229
* Gallons of beer brewed: 70 (14x5 gallon batches)
* Medals won for brewing: 3
    - Gold - Colorado State Fair - Mild
    - Gold - Rocky Mountain Homebrew Challenge - Hefeweizen
    - Bronze - Hoppy Halloween - Mild
* Beer competitions entered: 3
* Beers entered into competitions: 8
* Body fat % difference: -0.2
* Raw photos added to my computer: 2,995
* Roughly, number of photos taken: 12,782 (via `exiftool -ShutterCount`)
* FCC licenses received: 2 (technician and general)

I felt pretty powerless against the rising tide of horribleness that seemingly
permeated every aspect of 2017 -- that is not captured by these numbers.
